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HELP wingfaring rubber
- Thread starter skidookid
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Mike S
Senior Curmudgeon
You might check with Barge Cement folks. It pretty much sticks to anything.
http://www.bargeadhesive.com/products.html
http://www.bargeadhesive.com/products.html
swisseagle
Well Known Member
With primer ant the right glue it will work!
Hello
Use LOCTITE SF 770 Primer Adhesion Promoter and LOCTITE 406 Instant Adhesive.
Those together are used for glueing very difficult to glue materials.
Loctite has a small "kit" with a Cat no. 19328, if you can locate this ... not cheap, but works good.
Have made two planes with this. Put the rubber onto the wingroot fairing, put some tooth-pick material on the inside, so that the outside of the rubber is laying flat on the wingroot fairing, then apply dropwise glue from the inside, do not forget to apply primer to the cleaned rubber before.
I have done this with the fairing on a table. Let dry over night is best.
You can also do it only in the last 10-15cm at the end of the fairing, where it is prone to come loose.
Good luck!
Dominik
Hello
Use LOCTITE SF 770 Primer Adhesion Promoter and LOCTITE 406 Instant Adhesive.
Those together are used for glueing very difficult to glue materials.
Loctite has a small "kit" with a Cat no. 19328, if you can locate this ... not cheap, but works good.
Have made two planes with this. Put the rubber onto the wingroot fairing, put some tooth-pick material on the inside, so that the outside of the rubber is laying flat on the wingroot fairing, then apply dropwise glue from the inside, do not forget to apply primer to the cleaned rubber before.
I have done this with the fairing on a table. Let dry over night is best.
You can also do it only in the last 10-15cm at the end of the fairing, where it is prone to come loose.
Good luck!
Dominik
RV8Squaz
Well Known Member
Exactly!
Before I had my airplane painted I never had trouble with the rubber strip. However after it was painted, the slick surface allowed the rubber to slide off.
I tried "Yellow Death" but all I did was manage to get the two sides of the channel stuck together!
I tried a couple of different things but what ended up working is heavy duty/industrial double sided tape. I have both: a heavy duty one (it's black) from Home Depot and an industrial one from McMaster Carr or MSC Industrial Supply. I stuck it on the underside of the metal strip and then stuck the rubber strip to it. Hasn't moved since. Be sure to clean the metal real well or remove any wax if it's painted. Good luck!
swisseagle
Well Known Member
EPDM is the material
The wingroot seal is EPDM (someone mentioned it in this forum), that is the reason it is not so easy to glue.
EPDM exhibits satisfactory compatibility with fireproof hydraulic fluids, ketones, hot and cold water, and alkalis and exhibits unsatisfactory compatibility with most oils, gasoline, kerosene, aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons, halogenated solvents, and concentrated acids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPDM_rubber
Use the Loctite Primer and Glue and it works.
The wingroot seal is EPDM (someone mentioned it in this forum), that is the reason it is not so easy to glue.
EPDM exhibits satisfactory compatibility with fireproof hydraulic fluids, ketones, hot and cold water, and alkalis and exhibits unsatisfactory compatibility with most oils, gasoline, kerosene, aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons, halogenated solvents, and concentrated acids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPDM_rubber
Use the Loctite Primer and Glue and it works.
